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I love surrealism.
I love the bends and gasps it makes in my brain, melting this and stretching that. That flower is a beautiful face, and those spiders will shelter us from the desert rays. I love the painters of surreal paintings: Miro’s playful lines that lead the eyes to newness, Magritte placing objects in my face, Kandinsky…
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The Sound of One Hand Snapping
Poetry and lit readings have some weird stereotypes, starting with the berets. Of course we all wear berets, and I must say I own 4 different berets, wear them often, and look forward to buying more should they appear at flea markets. However, I find myself in the extreme minority with the berets. More common…
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The difficulty of the mid length poem
What even is mid-length? To me its any one-two page poem. It’s a tough length! Most of the time i have some idea for a poem, and it is crystalized immediately in a poem-diamond you can pierce through your ear. It’s a single statement of truth. Its something that I can put into words, and…
Erin Oubliette 